SILVER TIVOLI TABLEWARE
Jun 17, 2021
2 minutes
eld by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this collection of silverware comprises two wine cups, a trulla, ladle, and six spoons. The cups bear the inscription “Sattia, Daughter of Lucius”, though no other information about this figure is known. While Andrew Oliver Jr, writing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s in 1965, noted, “The name Sattia is recorded elsewhere,” he also stated, “The owner of this set of silver cannot be connected with any of her namesakes, not even the Sattia, who lived to the remarkable age of ninety in the reign of Emperor Claudius.”
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